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"Prayer takes practice, and we should remind ourselves that skilled people were not born with their skills."

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

"In NA, our joys are multiplied by sharing good days; our sorrows are lessened by sharing the bad. For the first time in our lives, we don't have to experience anything alone."

"One of the most profound changes in our lives is in the realm of personal relationships."

"We may think that we have done enough by writing about our past. We cannot afford this mistake."

"Emotional balance is one of the first results of meditation, and our experience bears this out."

"...we think that if we can just get enough food, enough sex, or enough money, we'll be satisfied and everything will be alright."

"Eventually we are shown that we must get honest, or we will use again."

"We had to have something different, and we thought we had found it in drugs."